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    Dead Batteries

    12.6 volts minimum is a full charge ! 12.4 is low but should start the engine, I would check the connections again and why would a new battery just installed, only have 12.35 volts after one start ?? What was battery voltage when installed ? Sounds like a battery with an internal short or a...
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    Renting A Boat

    If you end up with something bigger and faster, consider renting a boat pilot for a day. Around my area ( lake erie) we have a few that will take you out on your own boat and show you how to handle everything !! I am not licensed but with my 60 yrs of boating in various sizes I gave gone out...
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    Dead Batteries

    That is why I keep mine on a maintainer over the off season...
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    WARNING !! WARNING !! About brand new sparkplugs I bought.

    I picked up a little 2.2 hp Merc two stroke for my Jon boat but ended up using it for my kicker on my 16' Sylvan. Works perfect, capable of 5 plus mph but uses less than a quart of fuel an hour at 2 mph trolling. I steer with my MK electric bow mount with remote control...excellent setup !!
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    WARNING !! WARNING !! About brand new sparkplugs I bought.

    That is why you need a small kicker motor !
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    video of my motor idling

    Mabey just my ears, but it sounds slower than 800 rpm...is the teach reading correctly?
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    Dead Batteries

    While I have had many batteries go well beyond 4 years, when it comes up to 3 plus years on a battery, I watch them carefully, any sign of a problem, time to replace them. While batteries are not cheap, being stuck miles out with no power isn't a good day in my book!! My own batteries are...
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    OK for the spark plug gap to be slightly off from recommended?

    Quicksilver has a new number as a replacement for the buhw-2 plugs, use that number to order plugs, but like I found out, the box containing the new plug numbers actually had the old buhw-2 plugs in the new boxes !
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    OK for the spark plug gap to be slightly off from recommended?

    Why not the Quicksilver brand the mfg recomends ? In my experience, Champions only work best in OMC ( older type 2 stroke) engines, where NGK ( Quicksilver) seem much better in Mercury engines. To answer your question, the .002 difference in gap means nothing.
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    WARNING !! WARNING !! About brand new sparkplugs I bought.

    In many years gone by, Champion were the go to plugs for OMC engines, other brands never seem to work the same or last as long. Just the opposite in Merc engines, and chain saws where NGK was the plug of choice. The Quicksilver plugs I know use are NGK with an extra Quicksilver decal.
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    Water in the fuel

    Well I have recieved my education for this week. Never noticed the vents under my lawnmower cap !!
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    New 20ft Jon Boat

    Not much profit in a bare hull, so be prepared to pay handsomely !!
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    weird grounding issue

    Switched over to the pos post on house battery, now the hull is at battery voltage all the time whether switch is on or off ! Did some further testing and found the wire harness going to the dash for accessories might be the culprit. When that harness is disconnected completely, there is no...
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    weird grounding issue

    That makes sense, but I can't believe how much information is out there that states the opposite !!
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    Alumacraft layoff..

    The kids are waiting for the parents or grandparents to get there boats ready so they can burn their gas !
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    weird grounding issue

    This is what I am trying to understand.. 50 years as a toolmaker, not an electrician.
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    weird grounding issue

    The switch mounts to the battery post itself then has a threaded post to attach the ring terminals from the accessories. The battery is a group 29 deep cycle with posts and threaded posts on each side. The switch is just a knob that tightens to make connection or loosen to break the...
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    weird grounding issue

    OK....tried some additional testing after dinner. Looks like this issue took place after installing the switch. Test now show there is no 12.8v reading when the switch is on (battery on ) , but when the switch is turned off then the meter shows 12.8v going thru the hull. Before installing the...
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    weird grounding issue

    First off of thanks for responding !! All my accessories have inline fuses and a lead going to the house battery. I think I was doing what you suggested by removing one lead at a time from the battery, then checking, no change until all were disconnected ! Then I reversed the order and added...
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    weird grounding issue

    Yes, a start only battery and a house battery. I did disconnect the start battery and no change. It appears to me the house battery is the one charging the hull, but no idea how.
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